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Why should I carry my baby?
High rate of development & safety awareness
For a baby to reach their optimal level of learning, they need to enter a state called ‘quiet alertness’. Babies carried in a baby sling, wrap or soft structured baby carrier enter ‘quiet alertness’ far more frequently and easily than babies who are left in cots, prams or car seats. They are busy, quietly learning about the world that goes on around them, which they will one day take full part in. Babies are born to observe not be observed. How else can they successfully integrate into the society to which they are born? If you don’t believe it, just try it for one afternoon. Take your baby everywhere with you and let them watch allyour activities, you could hang out the washing with your baby strapped to your back for example, or whilst you change the bed or vacuum the living room. You’ll probably find your baby peering around you to see how you do what your doing!
A baby carried in a baby sling, wrap or soft structured baby carrier is in tune with their carers movements, when and how they walk, run, bend, lean, reach for objects and balance. A baby in a sling is practising using the essential muscles needed for all these movements. Just think about it for a moment, a baby placed upright in a sling is learning/practising their balancing skills and holding their head and/or upper body in a comfortable, upright position when you lean forward, reaching for something. As a result carried babies often learn how to support their head, crawl, stand and walk earlier and with greater skill than babies who are not carried.
Learning to talk is a complicated process. Babies need to learn how to shape their mouth, tongue and lips and how to breathe in order to make different sounds. Babies who are carried in a baby sling, wrap or soft structured baby carrier benefit from seeing, hearing and feeling their carer speak. They can watch how the mouth and lips move, hear different sounds and how they fit together to make sentences and they can feel how you breathe whilst talking. A huge advantage for a complicated skill!
Safety Awareness
A baby who is carried in a baby sling, wrap or soft structured baby carrier is safe and secure, you know they are warm and breathing because they are right there with you. You don’t need to listen intently to a baby monitor, worrying yourself over every sound you hear or don’t hear. You don’t need to confine yourself to one room where it’s safe for a young baby to play, spend lots of money on a play pen that takes up too much space and confines your baby’s learning experience to a VERY small space and you don’t need to keep running back from daily chores in the kitchen to check your baby is OK. Your baby can quite simply join you with all your daily activities and learn about safety on the way. They will learn through your modelling behaviour that a knife is sharp, the oven gets hot, you hold the banister when walking up or down the stairs. If you wear your baby in public they will learn about crossing roads, looking both ways and not walking in front of cars.
For a baby to reach their optimal level of learning, they need to enter a state called ‘quiet alertness’. Babies carried in a baby sling, wrap or soft structured baby carrier enter ‘quiet alertness’ far more frequently and easily than babies who are left in cots, prams or car seats. They are busy, quietly learning about the world that goes on around them, which they will one day take full part in. Babies are born to observe not be observed. How else can they successfully integrate into the society to which they are born? If you don’t believe it, just try it for one afternoon. Take your baby everywhere with you and let them watch allyour activities, you could hang out the washing with your baby strapped to your back for example, or whilst you change the bed or vacuum the living room. You’ll probably find your baby peering around you to see how you do what your doing!
A baby carried in a baby sling, wrap or soft structured baby carrier is in tune with their carers movements, when and how they walk, run, bend, lean, reach for objects and balance. A baby in a sling is practising using the essential muscles needed for all these movements. Just think about it for a moment, a baby placed upright in a sling is learning/practising their balancing skills and holding their head and/or upper body in a comfortable, upright position when you lean forward, reaching for something. As a result carried babies often learn how to support their head, crawl, stand and walk earlier and with greater skill than babies who are not carried.
Learning to talk is a complicated process. Babies need to learn how to shape their mouth, tongue and lips and how to breathe in order to make different sounds. Babies who are carried in a baby sling, wrap or soft structured baby carrier benefit from seeing, hearing and feeling their carer speak. They can watch how the mouth and lips move, hear different sounds and how they fit together to make sentences and they can feel how you breathe whilst talking. A huge advantage for a complicated skill!
Safety Awareness
A baby who is carried in a baby sling, wrap or soft structured baby carrier is safe and secure, you know they are warm and breathing because they are right there with you. You don’t need to listen intently to a baby monitor, worrying yourself over every sound you hear or don’t hear. You don’t need to confine yourself to one room where it’s safe for a young baby to play, spend lots of money on a play pen that takes up too much space and confines your baby’s learning experience to a VERY small space and you don’t need to keep running back from daily chores in the kitchen to check your baby is OK. Your baby can quite simply join you with all your daily activities and learn about safety on the way. They will learn through your modelling behaviour that a knife is sharp, the oven gets hot, you hold the banister when walking up or down the stairs. If you wear your baby in public they will learn about crossing roads, looking both ways and not walking in front of cars.